Prison officers are more than twice as likely to be reported for racism than prisoners, according to new figures Prison officers are more than twice as likely to be reported for racism than prisoners, according to new government figures showing alleged racist incidents across the prison estate have risen by a quarter. Ministry of Justice complaints data reveals a steady rise in alleged racist ...
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Rise in complaints of prison racism (Guardian Unlimited)
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Australian PM worried over stories of racism (NDTV)
9 Feb 2010 | 5:35 amAustralian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has said that he was worried over the stories his Asian son-in-law has told him about racism in this country, but assured the foreign students, including Indians, that his government was working hard to improve their safety. -
City aims to dismantle racism (The Gainesville Sun)
9 Feb 2010 | 3:21 amBy Julie Unger Correspondent A five-year community initiative to address racism in Gainesville kicks off Saturday with the first of a series of films. -
Ryerson takes aim against racism (Toronto Star)
9 Feb 2010 | 1:39 amRyerson University's first black student council president said he's proud the school has acted swiftly to create a senior equity watchdog for diversity and start studying how to take a demographic snapshot of staff and students, as called for by a campus task force on racism. -
Australian PM worried over stories of racism (Express India)
8 Feb 2010 | 10:43 pmKevin Rudd has said that he was worried over the stories his Asian son-in-law has told him about racism in Australia.
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Students welcome Ryerson's Anti-Racism Task Force recommendations - CNW Group
9 Feb 2010 | 5:30 amTORONTO , Feb. 9 /CNW/ - Ontario students welcome the recommendations released yesterday in Ryerson University's Anti-Racism Task Force Report. Many of the experiences described in the report are similar to those reported by racialised students ... -
Metropolitan Police 'still institutionally racist' - BBC UK News
9 Feb 2010 | 5:22 amSgt Alfred John was speaking after Met Commander Ali Dizaei was jailed for four years for corruption. Dizaei had earlier claimed he was the victim of a racist campaign after allegations of false expense claims. The Met said the 'institutional racism ... -
Declining Greek Economy Fuels Anti-Immigrant Mood - NPR News
9 Feb 2010 | 2:24 amProtesters shout slogans during an anti-racism march in central Athens in January. Some 500 people took part in the peaceful protest, calling on the Papandreou government to legalize all illegal immigrants in the country. Marita Pappa / AP Protesters ... -
Ryerson takes aim against racism - Toronto Star
9 Feb 2010 | 1:33 amRyerson University's first black student council president said he's proud the school has acted swiftly to create a senior equity watchdog for diversity and start studying how to take a demographic snapshot of staff and students, as called for by a ... -
Time to rock the sexism and racism boat - Daily Collegian
8 Feb 2010 | 9:59 pmI will admit right away that I am by no means a fashionable person. Everyday, I sport a plaid jacket that brings to mind the outfit Kurt Cobain was probably buried in. I wear wrinkled shirts bearing the likenesses of iconic figures ranging from the ...
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Red Sox not an issue of black and white
9 Feb 2010 | 11:39 amIn a city where race has always been a touchy subject given its deplorable history, you may remember how Fox Sports' Ken Rosenthal's 2008 column questioning the overwhelming whiteness of the Red Sox touched a nerve. -
Black History Month is time to begin dialog on race, Gore campaign chief says
9 Feb 2010 | 11:24 amRacial issues in the United States today are being forgotten, Donna Brazile, who chaired the Gore-Lieberman campaign in 2000, told an audience Monday night at Eastern Kentucky University. -
Racism at Ryerson? Look carefully or you'll miss it
9 Feb 2010 | 11:20 amLive, NOW CREA president takes your questions on MLS and the housing market Join our discussion on buying and selling homes in Canada, with Dale Ripplinger of the Canadian Real Estate Association and real estate reporter Steve Ladurantaye 0 0 Learn more: Beginner Investor Sleeping well with GICs Guaranteed investment certificates are considered a ... -
Matthew Fox interview
9 Feb 2010 | 11:17 amMatthew Fox, the leading man of 'Lost' Photo: Steve Schofield The 'Lost' supper: the TV show is now entering its final series Photo: Bob D'Amico What's he like then?' I ask the publicist as we wait outside Matthew Fox's hotel room. -
Company's 'violent' clothing line unwelcome in B.C. schools
9 Feb 2010 | 11:11 amLocally made hoodies and shirts depicting a balaclava, two baseball bats and the words "Stompdown" and "Killaz" have raised the ire of school board officials in Surrey, B.C. Theresa Campbell, head of the district's safe school program, sent out a bulletin warning staff about the inappropriate clothing, produced by Surrey company Ephin Apparel.
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Met 'still a racist institution'
9 Feb 2010 | 10:46 amThe chairman of the Metropolitan Black Police Association says the Met is "without doubt" still institutionally racist. -
France's national identity plans
9 Feb 2010 | 3:06 amNewcomers to France will be made to sign a declaration of values as part of a new campaign to define national identity, France's Prime Minister says. -
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Profile: Ali Dizaei
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African viewpoint: Anniversaries
8 Feb 2010 | 3:37 amIn our series of viewpoints from African journalists, Zimbabwean filmmaker and columnist Farai Sevenzo considers our obsession with anniversaries.
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Obama Administration Threatens to Yank Stimulus Funds Over Civil Rights
4 Feb 2010 | 11:39 amBy Ngoc Nguyen For the first time since President Obama signed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act a year ago, his administration has threatened to withhold stimulus money from a transit agency because it failed to comply with federal civil rights laws. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) threatened to pull $70 million in stimulus funds from Northern California’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system because it failed to comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VI prohibits agencies that receive federal funds from discriminatory practices. read… -
Notes from the Mehserle Trial's "Change of Venue" Hearing, Day One
7 Oct 2009 | 4:22 pmBy RMJ Rains’ brief argues that Oakland jurors will not be fair and impartial throughout the criminal trial given the influence of corporate and independent media coverage of the criminal trial, as well as the threat and influence of what Rains’ suggests are “enraged” Oakland resident protests directed at the issue of police brutality and the unjust murder of poor, Oakland residents. We the people reject any attempt by Rains’ to mischaracterize the moral conscience of informed and democratically engaged Oakland residents who want a safer and healthier city in which all peoples can… -
Justice Department to Recharge Civil Rights Enforcement
28 Sep 2009 | 12:26 pmBy Charlie Savage WASHINGTON — Seven months after taking office, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is reshaping the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division by pushing it back into some of the most important areas of American political life, including voting rights, housing, employment, bank lending practices and redistricting after the 2010 census. “I think the wounds that were inflicted on this division were deep, and it will take some time for them to fully heal,” said Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. read more -
When Racism Comes A Knockin...
16 Sep 2009 | 11:18 amCan white liberals keep their eye on the prize? By LudovicSpeaks I've been disappointed by white liberals and progressives' unwillingness and incompetence combating racism for 20 years. The inaction of large green groups on Van Jones resignation is yet another example. The NAACP, Equal Justice Society and Color of Change explicitely supported Van Jones before his resignation. On the white side, Treehugger, Grist and a few other small white organizations did. But the Sierra Club, Environmental Defense Fund, Greenpeace, and NRDC, who together must represent more than $100 million of mostly… -
Racism Blindness in Van Jones Political Lynching
16 Sep 2009 | 11:02 amWhite liberal leaders generally racismblind response to Van Jones’ political lynching bodes badly for next right wing wedge attack By LudvocSpeaks My previous piece "Can white liberals keep their eye on the prize when racism comes a knockin?" (Firedoglake, TheRoot, Alternet) pointed out that while significant people of color groups including the NAACP and the Equal Justice Society released statements supporting former WH Green Jobs advisor Van Jones before his resignation, no major white green groups--Sierra Club, National Resources Defense Council, Environmental Defense Fund, or…
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Open Thread: Does the Celebrity Doppelganger Facebook Meme leave out POCs?
9 Feb 2010 | 8:00 amBy Deputy Editor Thea Lim Over at Sepia Mutiny, Anna writes about the fact that the new Facebook trend of replacing your profile pic with a photo of the celebrity who looks most like you poses a unique problem for some people of colour. She quotes from a number of friends who couldn’t find a celeb that looked like them: “I’ve noticed that most of my friends of South Asian descent have changed theirs to Kal Penn when they don’t resemble him in the least… “all look same” syndrome, perhaps? “ “I’m only half-brown, and I hate that my doppelganger is white. I feel like… -
links for 2010-02-09
9 Feb 2010 | 7:01 amAn ‘Israeli Remix’ of a Palestinian Scarf | The Lede Blog @ NYTimes.com "But now a Jewish D.J. in Brooklyn finds himself defending his right to market what he calls an 'Israeli remix of the keffiyeh,' featuring the Star of David. "An article last week in the Abu Dhabi newspaper The National compared the effort by Jewish hipsters like Erez Safar to claim the keffiyeh for themselves as just the latest in a series of battles over symbols of Middle Eastern culture whose appropriation by Israelis has enraged Arabs." (tags: via:jasmine arab jews appropriation clothing)… -
Confusion in the Come-on: Racial Assumptions in Random Places
9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 amby Special Correspondent Wendi Muse From the annoying “hey shorty” and vulgar comments about my pouty lips to the more polite “Good morning, beautiful,” catcalls are a nuisance. Much like stereotypes, even the so-called “positive” ones can be frustrating and equally as demeaning as they reduce one’s existence solely to the physical. In addition, they remind those on the receiving end of the comments or calls that they are there for the speaker’s visual—and in some extremes, physical— indulgence. Despite whatever clever or biting retort the receiver of the comments or calls… -
Chain Reaction: Questlove and the NBC Cafeteria Menu
9 Feb 2010 | 4:00 amBy Special Correspondent Arturo R. García Hmm HR? - caption for this image, as posted by Questlove, drummer for The Roots, on Twitpic, Feb. 5 When i saw the sign i have to admit….i was DYING. like literally LMAO!!! maybe it was juxtaposition of the words: collard & history, jalapeno & honor, fried, black and nbc?? maybe it was the acculturative stress of having 28 days for this food that represents you but come march…pot roast for life kid! Whatever the case, I found this funny and when I find something funny I like to let the world in on the joke (twitpic anyone??). in NO… -
Watch “ColorLines: Race and Economic Recovery,” Only on LinkTV
8 Feb 2010 | 8:00 amBy Guest Contributor Seth Wessel, originally posted at RaceWire President Obama says the stimulus saved or created 2 million jobs in 2009. But is the recovery really working? The American dream of good jobs and strong communities is still just a dream for too many. The unfair economy hurts certain groups more, and that ends up hurting everyone. From the bottom line to the unemployment line to the color line, watch a new in-depth program from Link TV and Applied Research Center for a closer look — ColorLines: Race and Economic Recovery. Tune in to Link TV Friday, February 12, for ColorLines:…
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Steele Blames Criticism on Racism (Political Wire)
9 Feb 2010 | 9:46 amIn a new interview with Washingtonian , RNC Chairman Michael Steele talks about "a double standard that he believes has been applied by his critics" and suggests it's race-related. Said Steele: "I don't see stories about the internal operations of the DNC that I see about this operation. Why? Is it because Michael Steele is the chairman, or is it because a black man is chairman?"Source : Political Wire (subscribe)Explore : Michael Steele, Political Blogs, Political Personalities, Politics -
Adrian MacNair: How to combat racism on campus by banning 'weird' looks (Full Comment)
9 Feb 2010 | 8:00 amOne of the most predictable effects of anti-racism policies can be found in the law of unintended consequences, in that after a while they tend to foster and perpetuate the very racism those policies aim to defeat. After all, cataloging and enumerating every shade of skin pigment in a University is more than just an exercise in demography. It preserves the contradictory premise of...Source : Full Comment (subscribe)Explore : Discrimination, Toronto -
Meghan McCain: Tea Party Statements Reflect "Racism" (Horserace)
9 Feb 2010 | 6:55 amSen. John McCain's Daughter Says Young Republicans are Turned Off by the Tea Party Movement; Also Criticizes Sarah PalinSource : Horserace (subscribe)Explore : Celebrity, Meghan McCain, Political Blogs, Politics -
Nothing's More Satisfying than a New Wal-Mart Racism Scandal [The Workplace] (Gawker)
9 Feb 2010 | 6:18 amVillainous NASCAR-branded trinket retailer and employer of last resort Wal-Mart is being accused of firing ten African employees in Colorado in order to give their jobs to "local" people (whites)....Source : Gawker (subscribe)Explore : Colorado, States, US -
Marvel Comics: Captain America says tea parties are dangerous and racist (RenewAmerica columns)
9 Feb 2010 | 2:53 am... is Cappy quaking in his little red booties, but he's sure that the Tea Party folks are dangerous racists, too...Source : RenewAmerica columns (subscribe)
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Northwestern Event Fights ‘Islamaphobia’
In an effort to combat what its members call "Islamaphobia," Northwestern's Muslim-cultural Students Association brought in someone who knows a lot about the struggles that Muslims face around the world. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and a former Army chaplain at Guantánamo Bay, James Yusef Yee shared his experiences with a crowd of 300 people interested in fighting faith-based stereotypes, the Daily Northwestern reports. While working at Guantánamo Bay in 2003, Yee, a Chinese American, was imprisoned for 76 days after being accused of aiding the Taliban and… -
Officer Suspended for Calling Henry Louis Gates a 'Jungle Monkey'
BY Corky Siemaszko DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER The Boston cop suspended for calling Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates a "banana-eating jungle monkey" in a mass e-mail was turned in by fellow cops. -
Who's Right: Henry Louis Gates or the Arresting Police Officer?
Said Henry Louis Gates, Jr. after his recent arrest: "I can't believe that an individual policeman on the Cambridge police force would treat any African-American male this way ... [or] any citizen of the United States, no matter what their race." The police report from Cambridge Officer James Crowley, however, paints a disorderly Gates, "exhibiting loud and tumultuous behavior, in a public place, directed at a uniform police officer who was present investigating a report of a crime in progress." When asked to step outside his home, Gates reportedly replied, "I'll… -
Racial Tensions Stirred by Henry Louis Gates Arrest Could Grow
By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog O.J. Simpson, Simi Valley, Rodney King. They all stand as visions of a racially divided America, an aspect of American life and culture of which no one is proud. I'm just wondering if the controversy surrounding the clash between renowned African-American scholar Henry Gates and a sergeant in the Cambridge police department is going to become a clash of larger proportions. And I hope it does not. -
Harvard Prof Arrested in His Own Home
Henry Louis Gates Jr. is one of the most prominent African-American scholars in the world. He's written and edited more than 50 books. He's hosted several series and specials on television. He's received 49 honorary degrees from colleges and universities across the world. He was named as one of the 25 most influential Americans by Time magazine in 1997. And he's the director of the W. E. B. DuBois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University. He's kind of a big deal. That's why it was surprising when Cambridge, Mass., police showed up at Gates's house on…
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Pakistan: Beware Of The Nationalist Campaign
5 Feb 2010 | 8:11 amSana Saleem at Mystified Justice comments on ‘Wake Up Pakistan', a new nationalistic campaign spearheaded by Zaid Hamid targeting the youth: “Pakistan should wake up, but not to a new dawn of racism and bigotry.” -
Pakistan: Two More Blasts In Karachi
5 Feb 2010 | 7:55 amFive Rupees reports that two more suicidal blasts targeting Shia mourners rocked busy streets of Karachi taking scores of lives. -
Cuba: Identifying with Mandela
3 Feb 2010 | 7:34 amCuban diaspora blogger Uncommon Sense reports that “3 Cuban political prisoners this week delivered their congratulations to South African patriarch Nelson Mandela on this month's 20th anniversary of his release from prison”, and notes that they “identify with Mandela's own 27 years in prison, his lifelong struggle against an illegitimate regime and his willingness to forgive in order to build a better, freer society.” -
China: Race and racial conflicts
3 Feb 2010 | 12:51 amC. Custer from ChinaGeeks interviewed famous Chinese blogger Hecaitou on race issue in China. -
Belarus: “Hating Haiti?”
27 Jan 2010 | 5:16 pmAndrei Khrapavitski writes that Haiti “has become a popular topic” for Belarusian bloggers “to chatter about and for some to sarcastically grin at the pain of Haitians. It hurts to read how my compatriots, some of whom have received foreign aid themselves, seem to be quite cynical about the Haitian earthquake and purely racist hiding under a veil of Internet anonymity.”
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Racism against blacks is a funny thing...
9 Feb 2010 | 11:16 amThe most ignorant aspect of it is that black people come in so many different shades of color, yet people group us all into this one vision they’ve had of us over the years. This one dark skinned, watermelon eatin’, fried chicken swingin’, loud talkin’, basketball throwin’, rap gangster. Not every black person likes watermelon, or can play ball, or has a way with words and can be a rap star. You can have the fried chicken diss, though. I’ve never met another black person that didn’t like fried chicken. I reblogged a Lupe Fiasco quote on my… -
S2: Iceland (Video)
9 Feb 2010 | 11:11 amIn the first episode of ROL: Season Two, Roni tries to make friends with Icelandic horses, visits Reykjavik, Gullfoss, Geysir and Þingvellir National Park and encounters a rival travel show. -
The What Else of Queer Poetry
9 Feb 2010 | 11:11 amWHETTING EXCERPTS: …In queer poetry, desire blooms, and yes, I may just marry my dog— …Beyond that debate, we remain, in all our queerness, anomalies writing aloud the unimagined territories that language spearheads and explores. They may fear adventure in my world, but I inhabit theirs in multiple ways—and am them. …Queer poets especially locate practical alternative means for production and distribution of our work. These methods typically supersede the accolade-driven capitalist mainstream venues for poetry. …A queer poetry is one of the very few realms of… -
why i won't support the saints.
9 Feb 2010 | 10:57 amI finally did the research on the insipid “who dat” chant, and I am happy to say that my theory can be well-supported. On (and previous to) Superbowl Sunday, I said that I refused to pull for a team that had a chant that helped people remain grammatically incorrect. And quite frankly, I also found it racist. Maybe if any of those fans took a moment to realize what they were saying instead of jumping on a dirty bandwagon, they would realize that their chant originated in 1800’s minstrel shows. For those who are not in the know, minstrel (or minstrelsy) shows basically… -
Rationalizing hypocrisy and bad ideas: how to remind voters why they rejected the Republicans
9 Feb 2010 | 9:52 amThe recent take downs of Palin and Limbaugh for their hypocrisy of use of the term “retard” are good models for how to counter such illogical positions. Colbert’s dissection of the double standard from last night’s show is one of the better ones I’ve seen. The same is true for the weird rightwing jab that Obama is somehow dependent on teleprompters. This is gold for the committed rightwingers but leaves everybody else shaking their heads. Of course, Palin’s use of note cards during the speech and palm reading during the pre vetted Q&A session makes the…
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Mel Gibson, And The Distractions Of The Puppet Masters
4 Feb 2010 | 5:00 pmPeople we have to stop this type of foolishness, why come down on Mel Gibson for exercising his constitutional right to free speech. Danny Glover, is a communist so what! Chris Mathews, get chills up his legs and can’t believe our Hope and Change Citizen of the World President Obama is a black man when he hears him speak. Each of these individuals are exercising their constitutional rights to free speech. Whether we agree or disagree with their points of view! What really upsets me is the double standard of our propaganda news media, calling out Mel Gibson for something he said 5 or 6… -
Blaming the Jews for Crazy Stupidity?!
3 Feb 2010 | 4:48 pmThe gospel according to Havelock Ellis: “The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum.” Wow. The “whole” of the world’s rich and complex tapestry of religious movements with all the good, evil, and crazy is the sole responsibility of one or two religions that surfaced in and around a small nation near the Great Sea. Do I even need to response to this ignorance? Oops. I just did. This is crazy. And this is not some crazy sort of enlightenment. Buddhists would have something to say regarding these words… -
How Not To Do An Interview
3 Feb 2010 | 9:49 amMel Gibson Gets Angry, Calls Reporter An A**Hole | PopEater.com I vowed never to spend another dime on a Mel Gibson movie right after he showed his true colors in a drunken anti-semitic diatribe against an LA cop in 2006, felt vindicated when he vacated his Australian estate with its own personal Catholic chapel to abandon his wife and seven children for his mistress and new child, and now know for sure that he’ll never be a good enough actor to appear to be anything but what he is. Sorry, Mel. There was only one asshole in that interview, and it wasn’t the reporter. BW -
Ford Foundation brings president of eugenic founded organization into their Board of Directors
2 Feb 2010 | 8:36 amFrom Ford’s Press Release: Cecile Richards to Join Ford Foundation Board New York, 1 February 2010 — The Ford Foundation today announced that Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, will join the foundation’s board of trustees when the board next meets in May. She was elected at the January meeting of the trustees that took place last week. Ms. Richards brings to the Ford Foundation a long history of work in the nonprofit sector, particularly in the areas of women’s health, reproductive rights, and… -
Dutch pro-Palestinian socialite: Jewish lobby plays on Holocaust
1 Feb 2010 | 11:50 pmBy Cnaan Liphshiz, Haaretz Correspondent “Holland’s powerful Jewish lobby is playing on
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Is this the world we created?
20 Jan 2010 | 8:02 amHearing ” Is this the world we created” by Queen make me think about what’s going -
O governador de New Jersey, Jon Corzine, assinou lei estabelecendo normas para prevenir o racismo
28 Aug 2009 | 7:46 pmO governador de New Jersey, Jon Corzine, assinou lei estabelecendo normas para prevenir o racismo pelo Departamento de Polícia do estado e estabelecer um escritório especial para monitorar o trabalho do departamento. A lei faz parte do processo para finalizar a implementação de um acordo estabelecido entre o estado de New Jersey e o Departamento de Justiça dos Estados Unidos dez anos atrás. A partir de agora o escritório de fiscalização e a Corte do Distrito de New Jersey trabalham independentes do monitoramento que antes avaliava o cumprimento do acordo pela polícia. Uma… -
Racist Attacks On Indians?
27 May 2009 | 11:26 amFour Indian students studying abroad were brutally attacked by Australian teenagers with SCREWDRIVERS this week and all because they belong to a different race? Seriously, what is this world coming to. It’s such a shock that even though we homo-sapiens claim to be developed, intelligent and portray a sense of reality, we can’t help but create situations like these around us. What is all the good stuff worth if in the end we resort to violence and thoughtless and heartless attacks? Is it the inner demon we all possess or just simply a matter of a few angry teenagers? I’m… -
Protecting My Child's Innocence
24 Nov 2008 | 9:45 pmI’ve been living in New Zealand for close to 8 years now. I must say that compared to most Asi -
LIVING COLOUR. stop racism.
23 Nov 2008 | 3:09 pmso much going on. travelling, new friends, lot live music, school, sickness and upcoming rehearsal. but thank God I have time to relax too. saw a great band in oct. Living Colour rocked Budapest! I took this photo on the way back home. It was written on the walls of the train cabin: stop racism. i’ve seen so much great musicians live so far! thank you Peter!!! gotta mention Marcus Miller, who’s just incredible! Also gotta add the living legend Johnny Winter. and just recently: great blues guitarist&singer Little G. Weevil., the harp master Sugar Blue and the hungarian…
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American Tea Party Movement Fosters White Racial Resentment
7 Feb 2010 | 2:51 pmAt the National Tea Party Convention held in Nashville, Tennessee this weekend, leaders in this movement sought to turn the fringe group into a serious political force by fostering white racial resentment and suggesting a return to the Jim Crow days of literacy tests for voters. Several news commentators, including Rachel Maddow at MSNBC (opens video) and Rich Benjamin at Alternet, have commented on the racial subtext of the Tea Party Movement, and there’s building evidence of this based on the recent convention. Tom Tancredo, former Representative (R-Colorado), was the initial… -
Boston Cop Fired for Racial Slur in Email
6 Feb 2010 | 6:43 amBoston Police Commissioner Edward Davis said Officer Justin Barrett was fired yesterday for violating department rules when he sent the e-mail on July 22, 2009. In the email, Barrett called Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates a “jungle monkey.” The email was sent following the incident in Cambridge last summer when Prof. Gates was arrested in his own home on a disorderly conduct charge. “(Gates’) first priority should be to get off the phone and comply with police, for if I was the officer he verbally assaulted like a … jungle monkey, I would have sprayed… -
Racism and Health: Henrietta Lacks Revisited
5 Feb 2010 | 2:34 pmThe life of Henrietta Lacks is the subject of a new book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Ms. Lacks is a notable historical figure for her unwitting “donation” of her cells to scientific study. David Strohecker wrote about Ms. Lacks’ here back in October, around the 50th anniversary of her death from cervical cancer. Dwight Garner gives Skloot’s new book a rave review in The New York Times (hat tip: Jessica in Austin), and here’s a longish clip from that review: “The woman who provides this book its title, Henrietta Lacks,… -
Russian Neo-Nazis Killed 71 in Racist Attacks in 2009
5 Feb 2010 | 7:16 amRacist neo-Nazis in Russia killed 71 people in 2009, according to reports from Sky News (h/t: Hope not Hate). A group known as “Slavic Union,” is intent on eliminating anyone who appears to be “non-Russian” from Russia, including through violent attacks. A leader of the group, Dmitry Dyomushkin, says that he is interested in cultivating a “respectable image” for himself and the group, claiming that 60% of Russian citizens support the groups’ goals. However, he asserts that “even with this majority we are not allowed to be part of the political… -
Ethnicity and Violence in Africa: An Update
4 Feb 2010 | 9:25 amAt last count, the clashes that erupted on January 17 2010 in Jos (capital of Plateau State in Nigeria), had claimed the lives of about 360 people and displaced over 20,000 families as told by officials. This incident of cultural conflict in Nigeria represents the latest in the chronic antagonism between Muslims and Christians. In these parts, there is great overlap between ‘ethnicity’ signifying cultural characteristics or traits and religious identification so that one’s religion may be a descriptor of one’s ethnicity. The recent spate of killings in Jos has occurred between…
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Scott Fujita
9 Feb 2010 | 9:00 amWhen I first heard Scott Fujita was an NFL player, the first thing I had to do was to find out his story. Of course. I wanted to know if he was one of our people. Fujita, as you may know, is white and was adopted by a Japanese American man and a white woman. I was a little disappointed to find out Fujita was white. But then he started impressing me. Talking about his family’s history in the internment camps. Supporting GLBT issues. Speaking out against the Tebow ad. The dude has got the social justice thing going on. Plus he seems pretty aware. “When I got traded to Dallas (in… -
Too Asian?
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Become a marrow/stem cell donor
8 Feb 2010 | 11:00 pmBe the one to save a life. Asian Americans are represented in greater numbers in the National Marrow Donor Program than the overall population percentage. However, because the numbers are quite small, people of Asian descent have a very low probability of getting a match. This is eight-year-old Natalie Nakatani. I believe she is of Japanese and Chinese descent. I put her cute picture up so that you could see the face of the person you might help by being a donor. -
Dude.
8 Feb 2010 | 3:00 pmYou’re probably allowed to think this, but you probably shouldn’t say it to the New York Times reporter when you’re being interviewed for your wedding announcement: As the years passed, the couple rarely talked about marriage or commitment. Last July, as Ms. Yue’s 39th birthday was approaching, Mr. Yee, who wanted to be a father, did a rational analysis. “I was thinking, ‘She’s getting kind of old,’ ” he said. “I would either have to have children with Lorene immediately or find a new girlfriend and start the whole process all over.” -
Twofer
7 Feb 2010 | 6:00 pmSo you might have seen this twitter picture that’s making the rounds. It is of an NBC cafeteria menu “in honor of black history month” and includes fried chicken, collard greens, black-eyed peas and cornbread. It’s not like this is all that novel. Fortunately NBC has a black chef to defend the menu. And what does she have to say? “I don’t write up the menu… that comes from upstairs. But, I guess at this point it’s safe to assume that we won’t be going with the dog casserole for Asian American Month,” she said.
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LIVE BLOG: Joe DaSilva and Troy Grant court case
9 Feb 2010 | 5:35 amTHIS IS A LIVE BLOGI'm at the Danbury Superior Court House awaiting the start of the Joe DaSilva and Troy Grant cases.DaSilva, the owner of The Palace Theatre is charged with manslaughter in the connection of the death of Ecuadorian immigrant Luis Encalada Bueno.Grant, the executive director of Pathways Academy, was arrested on a number of charges which stemmed from an alleged sexual assault of minors.This post will be updated throughout the day as the cases get underway.8:45 AM: At the courthouse now. DaSilva and Grant's cases are scheduled to start at 10:00 AM. Don't know if the arrest… -
The Palace Theatre question that no one wants to answer
8 Feb 2010 | 11:04 amAs we approach Joe DaSilva's highly anticipated court appearance tomorrow, there's been one question that's been carefully avoided by public officials and the press...If DaSilva is convicted of the crime he's being charged with, what happens to the restoration of the Palace Theatre...or more specifically, should the City Council continue to it's participation in the restoration of the historic building on Main Street.Before the start of my live blog from the courthouse tomorrow, I wanted to know how you felt about the subject. Although one is to presumed innocent before found guilty, given… -
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FLASHBACK: Interview with Pathways Academy Executive Director Troy Grant
5 Feb 2010 | 10:32 amThe situation regarding Pathways Academy Executive Director Troy Grant shocked many in the Greater Danbury area.Last week, the prominent figure of the city's one on one mentoring program was arrested on several charges that involved an alleged sexual assault of minors (Grant is scheduled to be arraigned at Danbury Superior Court next Tuesday). Over the last week, several readers who read about the Grant case emailed me and asked if I knew anything about Pathways Academy. Well, it just happens that right before Christmas last year, I took part in a local access program where we talked about… -
Follow the money trail: Mayor Boughton Jan 10 2010 statement
4 Feb 2010 | 9:05 am"We get thousands of checks from thousands of people and we just wouldn't have any way of knowing something like that is happening."Mayor Boughton's response to his acceptance of James Galante alleged bundled campaign contributionsSince the mayor of DANBURY announced in BETHEL that he's jumping into the gubernatorial race, there's been a HUGE spike in traffic from people looking for information on the city's last honest man. That being said I've been notified by several that my links to Boughton's campaign finance statements are dead.I'm in the process of fixing the problem with the access to…
